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Requires only that you don't support abusers and harassers
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An observation on the Hugo Voters Packet that's a little too long for Twitter
So today Loncon released the long-awaited Hugo Voters Packet. Between this morning and this evening, I've now snagged all the parts except for Best Novel (no interest in WoT) and Best Fancast (for obvious reasons ( Read more... ) -
Everyone else seems to be putting their Hugo ballots on the internet
Granted, everyone else has fancy-schmancy blogs and that while I've only got this tired old LiveJournal, but it'll have to do.
(In no particular order.)
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2014: Books and Films
Books:
01/01 Big Baby, Charles Burns
02/01 The Language of Dying, Sarah Pinborough
07/01 The Violent Century, Lavie Tidhar
09/01 Apocalypse Now Now, Charlie Human
10/01 The People of Forever are Not Afraid, Shani Boianjiu
11/01 Signs of Life, Anna Raverat
11/01 She Is Not Invisible, Marcus Sedgwick
14/01 The Hate List, Jennifer Brown
20/01 ( Read more... ) -
Following in the footsteps of giants
i09 accidentally manages to nail while I was so disappointed by NOS4R2:
Hill channels the classic novels of his dad, Stephen King
See, I liked Joe Hill when he was writing his own stories. I liked 20th Century Ghosts (the closest touchstone I have to that is not any Stephen King, but Otsuichi's Zoo), and I like Locke and Key, and while Horns didn't ( Read more... ) -
Having read a book, some words.
Some day, aye, you will walk into a room, or a car, or an aeroplane, or a toilet, and you won't know it right then - but you will never get back out again. Exit only. Fact.
That's possibly one of the lighter passages from Jenni Fagan's The Panopticon, a book that had me gripped right up until page 290 of its ~320 page length. Where it lost me, it ( Read more... ) -
The Guardian do a top ten martial arts movies
In the not too distant future I hope to have the time to break this down like I did the action movies one, but right now I just have time to save the link and note that my immediate reactions ranged from "Oh yes" to "Fuck right off!" to "Meh, predictable." -
Fuck stigma
My mother, short of anything to read, asks me if I have anything.
I have two books to hand so I show her both of them, not mentioning anything about either of the two.
The first she rejects outright. I'm not surprised; the 'dragon' in the title cues her in to the fact that The Dragon Griaule is a fantasy book, so that puts her right off ( Read more... ) -
Because no-one reads this anyway
My God. It's like Moffat personally reached out of the TV set and wanked off every Doctor Who fanperson all at once. -
Noted for future reference and consideration
Moffat defends himself, though in not quite so many words, against accusations of misogyny.
Moffat's female characters are empty vessels defined only by their relationship to the Doctor: Amy the childhood friend, River Song the brave-faced but pining on-off wife, Clara Oswin the mystery to be solved ( Read more... )